A review by lauraborkpower
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

4.0

This book is so stressful, but in the best possible way. I didn't read much about it before starting, so I was expecting literary fiction and instead got an Ira Levin-level thriller and I loved every minute of it. I yelled at the book--particularly at Nella--a lot. It's terrifying and so good. Read it.

My only real complaint is with the audiobook's post-production and sound: there are four narrators, and they're distinct enough, but the edits and re-recordings were terribly obvious (I listened to most of it in my earbuds so it might not have been as noticeable in a car or table-top speaker). The periodic changes in volume and tone made me think we'd switched narrators when it was, in fact, just a poorly edited fix. But this is a very minor complaint and doesn't have to do with the narrators themselves, who all do a great job. (I'm becoming a very big fan of Bahni Turpin.)